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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BALTHASAR HEGELE, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPERING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,015, dated January 25, 1881.

Application filed September 4, 1860. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BALTHASAR HEGELE, of San J os, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Bottle-Stoppering Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of referen ce marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical central section of this invention. Fig. 2 represents a detail view of the stopper. Fig. 3 represents a detail bottom view of the three-spring plunger.

This invention has relation, mainly, to means for operating the stopper for my soda-water bottle for which a patent was granted to me on the 16th day of September, 1879; and it consists in providing the double stopper with a head having a square shoulder under it, joining it to the top of the upper cone; and it-also consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the three-spring catch at the lower end of the plunger, and of the packing-box, in combination with the stem thereof, all as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a bottle constructed with a doublecone neck, such as isdescribed in the Letters Patent above referred to.

B indicates the double stopper, which is designed to close the bottle when empty or when filled with soda-water or other carbonated liquid. This stopper is provided with a rubber flange, a, fitting in the, groove 1), and upon the topfof the upper cone, 0, of said stopper is formed a head, d, somewhat conoidal in form, and having an under shoulder, c. This head therefore forms a catch bearing entirely around the upper partof the upper cone.

0 represents the plunger, and D the guidestem, the latter being designed to work in bearings, being operated by means of a lever The guide-stem is provided at'its lower endwith a stop-flange,f, and is centrally perforated and threaded in its lower end at g to receive the threaded end h of the plunger, which is thereby rendered detachable. The lower end of the plunger 0 is provided with three spring-catches, k, extending downward and arranged equidistant from each other. The catch at the lower end of each spring is beveled in rounded form inward from the point, and is made in barb form, having a square shoulder, l. These springcatches are provided with stems s, which are sufficiently stout and broad to preserve a certain amount of rigidity laterally, and have the inner walls, m, of each pair obliquely arranged with reference to each other, so that between each two catches there is an opening, t, having its walls shelving toward each other.

E indicates thepacking-box, arranged on the plunger before it is screwed into the guidestem. It consists of the sleeve F, having an exterior wrench-seat, n, an internally-threaded connection below for the stopper-chamber of the filling apparatus, and an internally-threaded connection above for the gland r.

When the stopper is put into the bottle-neck it seats itself upright on the lower conical hearing, and its head is in position to be grasped by the three-spring catch as the plunger descends. The operating lever is then raised, moving the plunger upward a short distance, and with it the stopper, until the latter is in the enlarged middle portion of the neck, when the bottle can be readily filled. The stopper is then raised to the upper bearing of the neck to close the bottle. After the operation the bottle is removed by drawing it sidewise, the upper cone passing out from its seat between the spring-catches by a wedgin g action against the oblique walls of the barbs.

By removing the plunger from the flanged stem the said stem will serve as an attachment for any ordinary bottling-table, and may be attached readily.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In combination with a double conical bottle-stopper audits shouldered head d, the threespring plunger 0, having the barb-catches k, and abov the same the packing-box E on the plunger-s em, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the centrally per forated and threaded guide-stem D, of the de- In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 10 of two witnesses.

BALTHASAR HEGELE.

Witnesses CHARL LIUGGI, BALTHASER HEGELE. 

